The Gujarat High Court is the High Court of the state of Gujarat. It was established on 1 May 1960 under the Bombay Re-organisation Act,1960 after the state of Gujarat split from Bombay State.
Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan is an Indian judge who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India and later the chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of India. He was the first judge from Kerala to become the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. His tenure lasting more than three years has been one of the longest in the Supreme Court of India. While being Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court,he was appointed the acting governor of Gujarat from 16 January 1999 to 18 March 1999. In 2010,he was conferred with an honorary doctorate by Cochin University of Science and Technology.
Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi was an Indian judge who was the 26th Chief Justice of India. After serving as a judge in the Gujarat High Court,Ahmadi was appointed judge to the Supreme Court in 1988. He was then elevated to the post of Chief Justice,and served from 1994 to 1997. He served as chancellor at the Aligarh Muslim University for two terms.
Justice Bipinchandra Jivanlal Divan (1919–2012) was an Indian statesman. He was the Chief Justice of Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh High Courts,and Acting Governor of Andhra Pradesh.
Altamas Kabir was an Indian lawyer and judge who served as the 39th Chief Justice of India.
Sanjiv Bhatt is a former Indian Police Service officer of the Gujarat-cadre. He is known for his role in filing an affidavit in the Supreme Court of India against the then Chief Minister of Gujarat,Narendra Modi,concerning Modi's alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots. He claimed to have attended a meeting,during which Modi allegedly asked top police officials to let Hindus vent their anger against the Muslims. However,the Special Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme Court of India concluded that Bhatt did not attend any such meeting,and dismissed his allegations.
Padmanabhan Subramanian Poti was a former Chief Justice of the Kerala and Gujarat High Courts in India. After retiring he assisted the Indian People's Tribunal on Environment and Human Rights (IPT).
Mahagujarat movement,known locally as Mahagujarat Andolan,was a political movement demanding the creation of the state of Gujarat for Gujarati-speaking people from the bilingual Bombay state of India in 1956. It succeeded in the formation of Gujarat on 1 May 1960.
Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India;he retired on 16 June 2023. He is former chief justice of the Uttarakhand High Court. Before his appointment as chief justice of the High Court of Uttarakhand on 31 July 2014,he had served as a judge of the Kerala High Court for more than nine years.
Manjula Chellur is a former Chief Justice of Bombay High Court. She was the first woman Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court,was the Chief Justice of Kerala High Court and the first female judge of the Karnataka High Court. She demitted her office upon attaining the age of superannuation on 4 December 2017.
Sunderlal Trikamlal Desai was the 1st Chief Justice of Gujarat,serving from 1 May 1960 until his retirement on 25 January 1961. He later practiced as senior counsel in the Supreme Court of India till 1988. In 1968,he was appointed Treasurer for the Indian Commission of Jurists,a member of the International Commission of Jurists where he was instrumental in submitting the report on Right to Freedom of Movement before the ICJ.
Sugnya Kamalashanker Bhatt was an Indian judge of the Gujarat High Court.
Hrishikesh Roy is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is former Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court. He is also former judge of the Gauhati High Court.
Vikram Nath is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former chief justice of the Gujarat High Court and former judge of the Allahabad High Court. He was earlier recommended as chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court but the centre disapproved the recommendations. He is the first chief justice of a High Court in India to live stream its proceedings on Youtube during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel is an Indian judge. Presently,he is serving as the Chairperson of Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal. He is former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court. He has also served as Acting Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court and Judge of Jharkhand High Court and Gujarat High Court.
Justice Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi is an Indian judge. He is former Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court and Tripura High Court. He has also served as Judge of Bombay High Court and Gujarat High Court,of which he has also served as an Acting Chief Justice.
Bhushan Pradyumna Dharmadhikari is an Indian Judge. He is former Chief Justice of Bombay High Court. He has also served as Acting Chief Justice of Bombay High Court and Judge of Bombay High Court also.
Rashmin Manharbhai Chhaya was an Indian Judge. he was the Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court. He is former Judge of Gujarat High Court. He has also served as Acting Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court.
M. C. Bhatt is an Indian human rights lawyer and activist. He practiced at Gujarat High Court in Ahmedabad from 1962 to 2022.
